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Indigenous versus Foreign Business Models

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Although there are broad similarities between China and India—two large, populous, physically contiguous, ancient, Asian civilizations that formed nation-states roughly contemporaneously—there are stark differences in their development trajectories. Equally important, there are pros and cons to the models chosen by the two countries even if one restricts the comparison to the economic domain.1

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Huang, Y., Khanna, T. (2005). Indigenous versus Foreign Business Models. In: Friedman, E., Gilley, B. (eds) Asia’s Giants. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403978295_9

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